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The very first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom -- Lucifer.
Saul Alinsky
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Saul Alinsky
Age: 63 †
Born: 1909
Born: January 30
Died: 1972
Died: June 12
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Saul David Alinsky
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I prize my own independence too much. And philosophically, I could never accept any rigid dogma or ideology, whether it's Christianity or Marxism…The greatest crimes in history have been perpetrated by such religious and political and racial fanatics, from the persecutions of the Inquisition on down to Communist purges and Nazi genocide.
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A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.
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Many of the lower middle class are members of labor unions, churches, bowling clubs, fraternal, service, and nationality organizations. They are organizations and people that must be worked with as one would work with any other part of our populations - with respect, understanding, and sympathy.
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A free and open society is an ongoing conflict, interrupted periodically by compromises.
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If people don't think they have the power to solve their problems, they won't even think about how to solve them.
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Dogma, Whatever Form It Takes, Is The Ultimate Enemy Of Human Freedom.
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The prerequisite for an ideology is possession of a basic truth.
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The despair is there now it's up to us to go in and rub raw the sores of discontent, galvanize them for radical social change.
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My only fixed truth is a belief in people, a conviction that if people have the opportunity to act freely and the power to control their own destinies, they'll generally reach the right decisions.
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In a fight almost anything goes. It almost reaches the point where you stop to apologize if a chance blow lands above the belt.
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The enemy properly goaded and guided in his reaction will be your major strength.
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In this world laws are written for the lofty aim of the common good and then acted out in life on the basis of the common greed.
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Humor is essential to a successful tactician, for the most potent weapons known to mankind are satire and ridicule.
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A good tactic is one that your people enjoy.
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The human spirit glows from that small inner light of doubt whether we are right, while those who believe with certainty that they possess the right are dark inside and darken the world outside with cruelty, pain, and injustice.
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The classic statement on polarization comes from Christ: 'He that is not with me is against me.' (Luke 11:23) He allowed no middle ground to the moneychangers in the Temple. One acts decisively only in the conviction that all the angels are on one side and all the devils on the other.
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The end is what you want and the means is how you get it.
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Tactics mean doing what you can with what you have.
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Our world has always had two kinds of changers, the social changers and the money changers.
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History is a relay of revolutions.
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